Learn Graphic Designs For Websites | How To Design an Image
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Learn Graphic Designs For Websites | How To Design an Image
Great web graphics. When surfing the internet, you will see many graphical images on all websites. These are called web graphics. Categories of web graphics include buttons, bullets, animated images (texts, etc), photos, background tiles, and so much more. Each category of web graphics have sub-categories, for example web bullets have arrows, basic, prismatic, etc.
If you are looking for great web graphics to enhance your website or webpage, there are numerous sites online from where you can download these graphics. Graphic works on these sites are copyrighted, therefore, it is very important that you accept or agree to the statement outlined by each graphics creator before any downloads are made.
On the other hand, you not only can download great web graphics that are already created; you can create your personal graphics to use on your website, webpage or just for enjoyment. One way of doing this is to install graphic software or a graphic editor on your computer. The most popular ones include Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, the Gimp, Adobe Dreamweaver, Macromedia fireworks.
If you are not willing to purchase the software, then you can make use of free text generators and online sites to create animated texts and other graphics. Text generators are mostly linked to social networks, such as MySpace, Facebook, Tagged, Hi5, etc, where members are provided with the opportunity to create their graphics and upload them to their profiles thus making them more attractive. Some of the most popular text generators and online graphics websites include Cool Text Graphics Generator on cooltext.com, pimp-my-profile.com, textspace.net, glowtxt.com, EasyGraffitiText.com, GRSites.com, jellymuffin.com and so much more.
Here is how you can create a web button using the graphic making tool found on GRSites.com:
Step 1: Choose a background texture for the button
You can choose a background texture by using various options. The first option is browsing for a texture that is in the site’s archive and following the instructions in the title bar. The second option would be to create or design your own texture by choosing the type of texture (Gradient, Procedural, Pattern and Text) and personalizing it. Thirdly, you can fetch a texture from any other website by way of a URL or retrieve one from the archive by way of its filename. If you have a texture saved on your computer, you also have the option of uploading it to use on the site.
Step 2: Select the Button’s Shape, Style, Effect and Shadow
In this step you choose the shape of your button (pill, rounded, oval, rectangle, etc); the button style (plain, shaded, 3D, metal, glass, gel, bordered, etc); button outline (none, black, bright, perspective, custom color and dark); button shadow (drop, offset, mirror under, mirror behind, under and surround) and the effect (glow, brighten, spot, emboss, etc).
Step 3: Choose the button’s width and height in pixels
You can choose the height and width that you want the button to have manually or automatically.
Step 4: Enter the button’s text, URL and Text Size
In this step, you enter the text that you want the button to reflect, the URL where you want it to appear and the size of the text and the text options.
Step 5: Choose the text and the background color
The color that you choose can be one of the general colors or a specific color.
Step 6: Choose a font
The font chosen can be plain, emboldened or in italics. The font used can be the one provided by the site, or you can retrieve one form the site’s archive, another website or upload it from your computer.
Step 7: other options
In this step, you can set the file format (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIFF) and the image quality.
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